R J Dent

R J Dent is a translator based in the United kingdon. See below some of his translation work on our site and his own.

Translations on Listen to Poetry..

Charles Baudelaire

Other translations..

The Songs of Maldoror - by Le Comte de Lautréamont

Translated by R J Dent

‘A new, definitive edition of Lautréamont’s influential masterpiece. Vividly translated by R J Dent.’

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The Flowers of Evil & Artificial Paradise

The Flowers of Evil - Charles Baudelaire

Translated by R J Dent

‘Baudelaire was the first incarnation of the modern mind…’

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Alcaeus's Poems & Fragments into English.

Translated by R J Dent

R J Dent’s sensitive modern English translation of the complete Poems & Fragments of Alcaeus is now available in paperback and e-book formats from Circaidy Gregory Press

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R J Dent

is an English translator of European literature.

He has translated Le Comte de Lautréamont’s The Songs of Maldoror, Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil, and Alcaeus’s Poems & Fragments into English.

He has also translated key texts by the Marquis de Sade, Maurice Rollinat, Maurice Heine, Louis Aragon, Paula Maxa, Paul Eluard, Ibycus and Sappho.